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Bloomberg hires Omaha biz editor Davis as breaking news editor

Brad Davis

Brad Davis, the business editor of the Omaha World-Herald in Nebraska, has been hired by Bloomberg News as a breaking news editor.

He will start in April and be based in New York

The Warren Buffett-owned newspaper’s business section is down to one person and one standalone day a week in print from a seven-day-a-week standalone section with a staff of around a dozen when Davis arrived from The Wall Street Journal in 2015.

In 2016, The World-Herald won SABEW’s General Excellence award.

He was digital editor of markets and finance at The Journal when he left for Omaha. Davis spent eight years for Verdant Partners, managing a family-owned real-estate investment and management firm , before returning to college to receive a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

In 2009, he joined Barron’s. He also was a reporter for The Journal and Dow Jones, covering foreign exchange, Treasurys and global economics. He also logged more than 50,000 air miles covering the Federal Reserve.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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